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Thanks for your reply, bcbunker1. Would you happen to remember what kind of question? Let me re-pharse and ask - having gone through the process, if you were to prepare once again. What all would you do?

 
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Hard to prepare specifically for case interviews, the best thing you can do is become familiar with the format in general - it's pretty different than your standard finance interview.

When I interviewed with Dean senior year of college, most of the cases were manufacturing centric. Things like how to optimize production, how manufacture most cheaply between facilities (at different costs in each facility), how to price the product, etc.

Dean & Co actually puts out their own guide called "How to Crack the Case", which is all about preparing for case interviews in general. A lot of students I knew that interviewed for consulting roles with all kinds of firms used it as a general preparedness document - I assume it's especially relevant for Dean interviews specifically.

http://www.dean.com/careers/HowToCrackACase.pdf

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consultant09I would echo the comment on it being manufacturing centric. I remember something about a factory and quickly calculating packaging costs per unit based on some roundabout data they gave you... ended up being pretty simple really.
Heh, pretty sure that's the exact question I was asked when I interviewed.
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